CCC SITS with voiceover

Welcome!

Purpose

Supportive Intervention Teams (SITs)

City Colleges of Chicago

Welcome to this presentation on the Supportive Intervention Teams (SITs) at the City Colleges of Chicago. During the past year, the 7 Colleges have all established SITs. Let's all help our college communities become more aware and knowledgeable about the SITs. We all play an important role in supporting our teams and spreading the word! Please share this presentation with staff and faculty. Let's get started!

District SIT

SIT conducts behavioral threat assessments for persons who might pose a safety risk to themselves or others. SIT is a collaboration among key College departments and engages the College's resources to:

• Investigate concerning behavior
• Assess the level of threat
• Intervene to reduce threat to safety
• Support the person of concern and others affected by the concerning behavior
• Monitor the situation and provide adequate follow-up

• Determines SIT protocols
• Develops and implements behavior threat assessment training.
• Serves as a consulting team to college SITs
• Supports knowledge exchange among the colleges' SITs

SIT Membership

Best-Practices Model

The CCC SITs are founded upon national best-practices models and include recommendations by the Illinois (IBHE) Board of Higher Education and the National Behavioral Intervention Teams Association (NaBITA).

Fundamental to SIT's mission is the marshalling of the college's resources to provide support to the person of concern as a means for reducing the threat of harm to self or other.

Best-practices guidelines support a team composition drawing upon key departments and staff and their multi-disciplinary, professional perspectives. Members bring their special areas of knowledge to the table to investigate, assess, intervene, support, and monitor.

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Wellness

Center

President

and

Vice-President

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• Provides mental health lens

• Employs psychological assessment to determine risk to self or other

• Supports person of concern and persons affecting by acting out behaviors via counseling, case management, and community referrals

Take-Aways

• Provides executive leadership perspective

• Authorizes the existence and ongoing operation of SIT

General

Counsel

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Student

Services

• Legal counsel is sought for certain cases

• Provides a developmental perspective and advises on

policies, especially regarding student conduct

• Brings student of concern cases to the table

• Intervenes with person of concern to establish

behavioral limits and expectations.

• Offers support services to the student of concern

SIT's purpose

SIT's membership

Steps in SIT's behavioral threat assessment process

4 Ds -- the four levels of concerning behavior and what to do about them

How to submit an Online Person of Concern Report Form

Where to go to get more information about SIT

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Supportive

Intervention

Team

Other

Representation

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Faculty

• Some colleges include other types of representation on their SIT, such as the Veterans' Support Specialist, a staff from a satellite campus, or an athletics coach.

• Provides faculty perspective

• Advises team regarding student of concern's

educational development

• Supports faculty impacted by potential risk

• Offers consultation for classroom behavioral management

• Liaisons with faculty to inform of SIT

(SIT)

Security

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Functions

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• Provides safety/security and law enforcement lens

• Brings security and incident reports to the table

• Intervenes with person of concern to establish
• behavioral limits and expectations.

• Liaisons with local police

• Enhances security measures, limits building

access, and provides safety escorts

Disability

Access Center

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Office of

Instruction

Human

Resources

• Provides disability services perspective

• Advises on American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state laws regarding disabled persons.

• Offers evaluations, support, and advocacy for students

of concern when needed.

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• Provides instructional perspective

• Advises regarding instructional policies

• Supports faculty impacted by concerning behavior

• Offers consultation for classroom behavioral

management

• Supports student of concern's academic and personal development.

• Provides HR lens

• Seeks SIT consultation regarding employee behavioral

concerns when safety is at risk.

• Advises team of HR policies

• Informs team of EEOC guidelines

• Offers support to employees of concern

More Info

Submitting Online Person of Concern Report

Be sure to turn up the volume on your computer so that you can hear the voiceover.

In an emergency,

contact Security or call 911.

The 4 Ds represent escalating levels

of concerning behavior

For more information about SIT, contact any member of your college's team or Michael Russell, Chair, District SIT: mrussell23@ccc.edu

Narrators:

Michael Russell

District Director, Wellness Centers

Jessica Towsky

Asst. Manager, Wellness Center

Harold Washington College

Dangerous

Disruptive

Disturbed

Distressed